“Stores” ss. Sonderkandrd “Dirlevanger”: Alexey Pishenkov

This part, formed from prisoners of prisons and concentration camps on Hitler’s personal order, was nicknamed the “fines” of the SS. Her name was horrified by all of Poland and Belarus. Her soldiers did not basically be captured.
Created in the spring of 1940 as the “Poacher’s team of Oranienburg” (“Wilddiebkomniando Orangeenburg”) specifically for the fight against partisans, then renamed the SS SS “SS-Sonder Batatlion” Dirleivanger) in “honor” of its commander, its commander Oscars Dirlewanger, an alcoholic and a psychopath, who was twice serving a term for the seduction of young people – this unit “became famous” by extreme cruelty and military crimes. The entire war of the 36th Grenadier Division of the SS “Dirlevaner” (36. Waffen-Grenadier-Diinsioti Der SS “Dirle-Wanger”) was used mainly for punitive operations, especially “distinguished” when the Warsaw uprising and the reprisals of the civilian population in Belarus.
After the war, the surviving Veterans Waffen-SS tried to prove that, unlike …

Author
Pishenkov Alexey Anatolyevich
Editor
Petrovsky I.
Publisher
Yauza, 2012
Series
The Second World War. Life and death on the east Front